Uniform title | Short stories. Selections |
Portion of title |
New Yorker stories |
Contents |
A platonic relationship -- Fancy flights -- Wolf dreams -- Dwarf house -- Snake's shoes -- Vermont -- Downhill -- Wanda's -- Colorado -- The lawn party -- Secrets and surprises -- Weekend -- Tuesday night -- Shifting -- Distant music -- A vintage Thunderbird -- The Cinderella waltz -- The burning house -- Waiting -- Greenwich time -- Gravity -- Running dreams -- Afloat -- Girl talk -- Like glass -- Desire -- Moving water -- Coney Island -- Television -- Lofty -- One day -- Heaven on a summer night -- Times -- In the white night -- Summer people -- Janus -- Skeletons -- Where you'll find me -- Home to Marie -- Horatio's trick -- Second question -- Zalla -- The women of this world -- That last odd day in L.A. -- Find and replace -- The rabbit hole as likely explanation -- Coping stones -- The confidence decoy. |
Abstract |
Collects every Beattie story published in "The New Yorker" magazine throughout a thirty-five-year period, in an anthology that offers insight into modern American family life. |
General note | Complete collection of the author's stories previously published in The New Yorker, 1974-2006. |
Other title |
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) |
LCCN | 2010032933 |
ISBN | 1439168741 (hardcover) |
ISBN | 9781439168745 (hardcover) |